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The Paulos Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$307k
Granted FY2023
16
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$40k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Paulos Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Paulos Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $307k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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17
28
18
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20
29
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22
22
10
23
0
24
0
25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$1.6MHuman Services$1.5MHousing & Shelter$1.5MEducation$882kHealth$612kArts & Culture$557kReligion$383kPublic Benefit$99kOther$0
02FY2023 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $283k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DRC SOLUTIONS$40,000
RECOVERY RESOURCE COUNCIL ON DRUG AND ALCOHOL$40,000
CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES$35,000
WESTLAKE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$30,000
29 ACRES$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
ANY BABY CAN$20,000
HELPING RESTORE ABILITY$20,000
DCAC (ART FOR ADVOCACY)$20,000
PATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC$15,000
CHORUS AUSTIN$12,500
HOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH$7,500
PROJECT HOPE$5,000
MENTAL HEALTH PEER SERVICES$5,000
AUSTIN SPEECH LABS$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $312k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 16%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK: $5k → 12%METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 16%PATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC: $15k → 14%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $70k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $35k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $35k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $35k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $35k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $35k → 11%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $35k → 11%COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE OF TEXAS: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.6M · 51 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2023, 38 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
27

Total granted

$5.6M
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+19%

Still filing today

57%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • DR
    DAY RESOURCE CENTER FOR HOMELESS
    7× · 2017–2023 · $320k · revenue +102%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES
    7× · 2017–2023 · $280k · revenue +316%
  • HR
    Helping Restore Ability
    7× · 2017–2023 · $160k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • CO
    CARITAS OF AUSTIN
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +19%
  • ML
    MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -60%
  • WP
    WOMENS POLICY FORUM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $6k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
3
Dallas Contemporary

Dallas contemporary presents art in a forum that cultivates artists, ignites learning and inspires the community. dallas contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging ideas from regional, national and…

Arts & Culture
4
Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council

Klru is a leader in public media, distinguished by its energetic engagement with the community and for the quality and creativity of content. klru illuminates the wider world of knowledge; the importance of discourse; and the many…

Arts & Culture
5
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

6
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
7
The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas

Using Shakespeare's works as a cornerstone, Shakespeare Dallas serves the Southwest region with fun and accessible indoor and outdoor theatre, integrated school programs, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages and backgrounds.

8
Downtown Dallas Inc

Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…

9
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
10
The Dallas Opera Foundation

Provide financial support to the dallas opera.

Philanthropy
11
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

12
Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is It Starts With Soccer. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%6%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr12%38%35–55yr13%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr18%5%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr12%58%35–55yr13%9%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
15%
6,832/45,858

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 84 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
34/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAMARITAN HOUSE — $1,173,882 · OtherSAMARITAN HOUSENEW LEAF COMMUNITY SERVICES - HOUSING PROJ — $1,100,000 · OtherNEW LEAF COMMUNITY SERVICES - HOUSING PROJSHELTON SCHOOL — $499,750 · OtherSHELTON SCHOOLRECOVERY RESOURCE COUNCIL ON DRUG AND ALCOHOL — $285,000 · OtherRECOVERY RESOURCE COUNCIL ON DRUG AND ALCOHOLWESTLAKE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $258,000 · OtherWESTLAKE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $166,500 · OtherHelping Restore Ability — $160,000 · OtherPARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $160,000 · Other+46 more — $742,230 · Other+46 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX — $857,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF …DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $714,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE…+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyDALLAS THEATER CENTER — $90,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $82,500 · Arts & CultureThe Dallas Opera — $76,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $20,500 · Arts & CultureLYRIC STAGE INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTACA INC — $12,500 · Arts & CultureWATERTOWER THEATRE INC — $12,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $17,250 · Arts & CultureDAY RESOURCE CENTER FOR HOMELESS — $320,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $5,750 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES — $280,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC — $15,000 · Human Services+4 more — $19,000 · Human ServicesCenter for Public Policy Priorities — $95,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE — $3,600 · Public BenefitDALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE — $78,500 · EducationHOLY TRINITY ACADEMY — $12,000 · Education+3 more — $2,560 · Education
Other$4,545,362Philanthropy$1,581,000Arts & Culture$330,750Community Improvement$325,750Human Services$314,000Public Benefit$98,600Education$93,060

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX — $857,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $714,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAY RESOURCE CENTER FOR HOMELESS — $320,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES — $280,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetHelping Restore Ability — $160,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $160,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Public Policy Priorities — $95,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetDALLAS THEATER CENTER — $90,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $82,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE — $78,500 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetThe Dallas Opera — $76,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget29 ACRES INC — $26,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $20,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLYRIC STAGE INC — $20,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCHORUS AUSTIN — $18,505 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetAUSTIN SPEECH LABS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTACA INC — $12,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHOLY TRINITY ACADEMY — $12,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetWATERTOWER THEATRE INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDec My Room Inc — $9,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetDallas Museum of Art — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $6,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFORT WORTH CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC — $5,750 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $3,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of WRR — $3,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Healthcare of Texas — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $1,060 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAUGHTERS OF PENELOPE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIt Starts With Soccer — $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican Artists Project — $750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAUSTIN COLLEGE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC
  • Who funds DAY RESOURCE CENTER FOR HOMELESS
  • Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES
  • Who funds Helping Restore Ability
  • Who funds PARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
  • Who funds Center for Public Policy Priorities
  • Who funds DALLAS THEATER CENTER
  • Who funds DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds DALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE
  • Who funds The Dallas Opera
  • Who funds AUSTIN STREET CENTER
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds 29 ACRES INC
  • Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC
  • Who funds LYRIC STAGE INC
  • Who funds CHORUS AUSTIN
  • Who funds AUSTIN SPEECH LABS INC
  • Who funds PATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC
  • Who funds TACA INC
  • Who funds HOLY TRINITY ACADEMY
  • Who funds WATERTOWER THEATRE INC
  • Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX20.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Meadows Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · The Rosewood Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Dallas Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Paulos Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 84 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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